What kind of place would the locked planet be?

 

What kind of place would the locked planet be?

Have you ever thought, what could be live on the planet, which is orbiting the red dwarf? The hypothetical planet would be, of course, locked and that means that the other side of it would be extremely hot, and the other side will be freezing. In this text, the hypothetical planet would have an atmosphere, but could there be lifeforms? The thing is that there could be some kind of primitive life forms like some kind of fungus, which would pull themselves inside the ground if the red dwarf will be erupting. 

And the lifeforms of that planet would need to synchronize their life with the red dwarf. So when the eruption of the red dwarf will begin, all the lifeforms must go in cover. And that means that all movements on the planet will end, while those hypothetical lifeforms would go to cover. But what that planet would look like? At first, we should describe what kind of planet our locked world could be? 

The reality is if that planet is very old or there are no radioactive elements on that planet, there would not be volcanic activity, but the storms would run on the planet with very high force. The rising gas of the atmosphere would create gas pylon, which would heat the atmosphere extremely hot. And the other side of our imaginational planet would be freezing.

So the atmosphere would stabilize the temperature, but there would be extremely powerful wind on the planet, which could be very close to its sun. Those winds will also increase the temperature of the surface, because of the friction, and if those winds blow millions of years, it would increase the temperature of the planet. So the lifeforms can live only at the terminator, the line between night and day. And maybe that planet would have canyons, what denies the straight impact with the wind and water. 

But what if the planet would be quite young, and there would be liquid nucleus? The thing would make an interesting effect on that planet. The gravity field of the red dwarf would pull the magma to the surface of the dayside. That means that the nucleus of the planet would not be at the center of the planet. And that thing could make the dayside of the planet the lava lake. The vision is that the dayside of the planet would be like some vision of hell. The lava would shine on the surface of the planet. And everything looks red because the red dwarf is shining red light. 

So could that planet have lifeforms? There could be liquid water on the mountain areas, where temperature and gas pressure is low. And that thing would decrease the effect of the wind. So there could be oceans, and those lifeforms would live below the water. And there could be even large underground water systems, and the canyons can protect the water from the powerful wind and the friction, which also heats the surface. 

Image: https://phys.org/news/2017-02-nasa-planets-red-dwarf-stars.html